I'm German and don't think this is that wrong.
This isn't just an opinion or an insult. It's a denial of a pretty big fact and as important for some people a a thing can be,
Not good. Even if it works, while the number of the offenders may fall, but those remaining will radicalize.
Although in the first place I wonder how they're gonna enforce this.
Splitting Google along ideological lines? Progressive Google vs. Conservative Google? Quotas for ideologies?
(The latter was pretty bad in public German TV. With politicians getting angry because the other side had one second more of screentime. Nobody ever seemed to consider that many people might get fed up with politics in general.)
You have to pay quite some money to read journals, but you have to pay for publishing in them as well. It is as if science was a crime, and you get fined for doing it.
It doesn't even have to be an open office - those rooms with glass doors may look nice, but it's a PITA whenever a secretary in high heels walks by. Managers shouldn't be astonished that there are Dilbert cartoons.
If we seriously wanted to make this "fact-checking plug-in", and it does more than counting votes of random internet users, it'd be the biggest plug-in by far. Ever.
As long as you have facts to check like "2 + 2 = 4", it'd work. Although that alone would blow your browser up to the size of Wolfram Alpha's software.
This is what I've been asking myself in recent times. How hard is it entering a software project with some hundred thousands LoC, hundreds of packages and more than ten years on the market?
Could we need a new tool for this? (In fact, I'm working on this idea since I am self-employed, but unless you ask me about it, I won't shill.)
Hm. The more I think about it, the more certain I am that the problem is this: It's hard to predict how long a software project will take (unless it's absolutely trivial). Even if you are a programmer. But the suits have their hands on the money, and the power to fire you, and they decide about the deadlines.
Google's CAPTCHAs are indeed too complicated. (When I thought that first, they still used distorted letters, but the problem remains the same.)
Now I thought up an alternative and spent some time building up a database for it. (My website for it isn't online yet, but I didn't want to advertise it either. Contact me for details.)
...but with the marketers, media, salescritters and politicians. All you can blame the scientists for is that they didn't shout FRAUD immediately.
Maybe we could use a kind of Wikileaks for this? Or are there other sites we could use?
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Glass doesn't rot, doesn't rust...
I'm German and don't think this is that wrong. This isn't just an opinion or an insult. It's a denial of a pretty big fact and as important for some people a a thing can be,
Not good. Even if it works, while the number of the offenders may fall, but those remaining will radicalize. Although in the first place I wonder how they're gonna enforce this.
Splitting Google along ideological lines? Progressive Google vs. Conservative Google? Quotas for ideologies? (The latter was pretty bad in public German TV. With politicians getting angry because the other side had one second more of screentime. Nobody ever seemed to consider that many people might get fed up with politics in general.)
You have to pay quite some money to read journals, but you have to pay for publishing in them as well. It is as if science was a crime, and you get fined for doing it.
I absolutely agree with this.
Obviously this didn't matter. Some countries like the UK have different laws.
And yes, often it is like an adventure too.
It doesn't even have to be an open office - those rooms with glass doors may look nice, but it's a PITA whenever a secretary in high heels walks by. Managers shouldn't be astonished that there are Dilbert cartoons.
If we seriously wanted to make this "fact-checking plug-in", and it does more than counting votes of random internet users, it'd be the biggest plug-in by far. Ever.
As long as you have facts to check like "2 + 2 = 4", it'd work. Although that alone would blow your browser up to the size of Wolfram Alpha's software.
Programmers are like cats. Good luck unionizing us.
molarmass recommends to "file a WH-4 with the Department of Labor".
"Submissive"? Seems the managers think an employee who says something doesn't work for technical reasons just has to be "difficult".
Whether the management lied about the skills or not, decisions like that are the reason people hate them.
This is what I've been asking myself in recent times. How hard is it entering a software project with some hundred thousands LoC, hundreds of packages and more than ten years on the market? Could we need a new tool for this? (In fact, I'm working on this idea since I am self-employed, but unless you ask me about it, I won't shill.)
Selling may be necessary, but I neither want to tell lies nor waste my time with fools.
JS has its flaws, but I still like jQuery very much.
Hm. The more I think about it, the more certain I am that the problem is this: It's hard to predict how long a software project will take (unless it's absolutely trivial). Even if you are a programmer. But the suits have their hands on the money, and the power to fire you, and they decide about the deadlines.
This is just like in Dilbert. I am not surprised that some programmers become whistleblowers or such. I'm only surprised it doesn't happen more often.
Google's CAPTCHAs are indeed too complicated. (When I thought that first, they still used distorted letters, but the problem remains the same.) Now I thought up an alternative and spent some time building up a database for it. (My website for it isn't online yet, but I didn't want to advertise it either. Contact me for details.)
RIP, Ian.
...but with the marketers, media, salescritters and politicians. All you can blame the scientists for is that they didn't shout FRAUD immediately. Maybe we could use a kind of Wikileaks for this? Or are there other sites we could use?
When I read this, I thought: "Finally! Shake in fear, patent trolls!"
...do newer technologies like 3d printers fit in?